Elephantomyia, Osten Sacken, 1860

Kopeć, Katarzyna, Kania, Iwona & Krzemiński, Wiesław, 2016, New and little known crane-fly species of the genera Helius, Elephantomyia and Toxorhina (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Dominican and Mexican amber, Palaeontologia Electronica 13 (8), pp. 1-14 : 3

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Elephantomyia
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Genus ELEPHANTOMYIA Osten Sacken, 1860 View in CoL

Type species. Elephantomyia canadensis ( Westwood, 1835) .

The genus is represented by more than 130 extant species, which occur mainly in tropical and subtropical regions like: Neotropic, Afrotropic ( Oosterbroek, 2015). Over 20 species are represented in oriental region, over 10 species in Palearctic, Australian and Oceanian, while only three species were reported from Nearctic region.

Until recently, only six fossil species have been described, mainly from Eocene Baltic amber ( Loew, 1851; Alexander, 1931; Kania, 2015) and one species from Oligocene Dominican amber ( Podenas and Poinar, 2001).

Alexander, C. P. 1931. Crane flies of the Baltic Amber (Diptera). Bernstein-Forschungen, 2: 1 - 135.

Kania, I. 2015. Subfamily Limoniinae Speiser, 1909 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic Amber (Eocene): The Genus Elephantomyia Osten Sacken, 1860. PLoS ONE, 10 (2): e 0117434. doi: 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0117434

Loew, H. 1851. Beschreibung einiger neuen Tipularia terricola. Linnaea Entomologica, 5: 385 - 418. (In German)

Oosterbroek, P. 2015. Catalogue of the Crane-flies of the World. (Diptera, Tipuloidea: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae). Available at: http: // nlbif. eti. uva. nl / ccw / index. php

Osten Sacken, C. R. 1860. New genera and species of North American Tipulidae with short palpi, with an attempt at a new classification of the tribe. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1859: 197 - 256.

Podenas, S. and Poinar, G. O., Jr. 2001. New crane flies (Diptera: Tipulidae, Limoniidae) from Dominican and Mexican amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 103 (4): 863 - 878.

Westwood, J. O. 1835. Insectorum novorum exoticorum (ex ordine Dipterorum) descriptiones. London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, 3 (6): 280 - 281. (In Latin)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Limoniidae